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The '''[[gametech:Super Game Boy|Super Game Boy]]''' was a peripheral designed to play Game Boy and black Game Boy Color cartridges on the Super Nintendo through the cartridge slot, just like a typical SNES game. The Super Game Boy uses a special version of the Game Boy hardware to allow for ''Super Game Boy enhanced'' Game Boy games to operate its otherwise hidden features, such as colorization and improved sound by way of the SNES's more sophisticated sound hardware.
Although many [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators]] and [[Game Boy Advance emulators]] can somewhat replicate the SGB's added features using certain tricks, ''true'' emulation of the SGB can only be done by a multi-system emulator that supports emulating a SNES and a Game Boy simultaneously. [[higan]], and by exteension extension [[ares]], were the first emulators to add SGB support, though it's understandably hardware-intensive even by their usual reckoning.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/zwq9fu/ares_crossplatform_open_source_multisystem/j1ys10k/</ref> As of April 2023, the only other multi-system emulator that can do proper SGB emulation is Mesen2.
Another thing to note is that there's a redesigned model, only released in Japan, called the ''Super Game Boy 2''. It can use a link cable connection that the first model lacks. It also fixes a slight overclocking issue and runs games at normal speed.
